Simon Heffer

Simon Heffer
Born
Simon James Heffer

(1960-07-18) 18 July 1960 (age 64)
Chelmsford, Essex, England
EducationKing Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Historian
  • journalist
  • author
  • political commentator
Spouse
Diana Caroline Heffer
(m. 1987)
Children2

Simon James Heffer (born 18 July 1960) is an English historian, journalist, author and political commentator. He has published several biographies and a series of books on the social history of Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the First World War. He was appointed professorial research fellow at the University of Buckingham in 2017.

He worked as a columnist for the Daily Mail and since 2015 has had a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph. As a political commentator, Heffer takes a socially conservative position.